One of the realities that we are dealing with at Grace Hill is invisibility. Lord willing, we won’t always be invisible, but for right now, we are invisible. One of the things we are trying to do as a core group is to be more visible. We have started going on prayer walks in the neighborhood surrounding Cherokee Middle School, where we hold services. Last Saturday, we handed out water bottles to walkers, joggers and strollers at Sequiota Park. At the end of the month we’ll be serving down at Convoy of Hope helping pack boxes and take inventory of their relief supplies. All of these are ways in which we are trying to be seen. And yet even doing these things, we can still be invisible unless God opens the eyes of those around us and makes us visible.

It got me further thinking about King David. Last Sunday I began a summer series on the life of David and I was struck in my study of 1 Samuel 16, where David is anointed king, how invisible David was to his family, to Samuel and perhaps even to God. He was left to tend to the flock while the other brothers got to go to the sacrifical feast that Samuel was putting on, even though unbeknownst to him, he was the guest of honor. David’s invisibility was hardly an obstacle for God to overcome, and Grace Hill’s invisibility is hardly an obstacle for God to overcome, or our being Presbyterian for that matter, which I think is an obstacle for people down here. But surely even our being Presbyterian is not an obstacle to God.

As you pray for the work of Grace Hill, pray for our visibility and receptivity as we seek to love our fellow Springfieldians so that they can come alive to the wonder of God’s grace. Pray that God would not only make us more visible, but that he would make his Son more visible through us.